– 100 – (3.2 – Council) recognizing 1 that, pursuant to Rule 12, Member States which are not Member States of Council may submit written contributions to Council; 2 that Council 2003 accepted the criteria set out by the Chairman for a procedure to implement, on a provisional basis, the instruction from Resolution 109 (Marrakesh, 2002) to allow observer Member States to address meetings of Council; 3 these criteria have been applied, fulfilling the instruction to Council of the Plenipotentiary Conference (Marrakesh, 2002), decides 1 to amend Rule 7 paragraph 3 of its Rules of Procedure for consistency with the Convention to read: “3. Observers designated by Observer Members shall not have the right to vote.” 2 that Member States having the status of observer attending Council may be invited by the Chairman to take the floor to make statements to meetings of Council in accordance with Rule 11 under the following conditions: a) that the observer Member State has previously signalled to the secretariat its wish to speak on particular items of the agenda or to introduce its written contribution; b) the floor will be given only after the Member States of the Council have finished making their statements; c) the observer Member State will be entitled to speak only once on any given agenda item; d) the duration of such statements will be limited according to the number of requests made and the total amount of time allocated with respect to the work to be accomplished; 3 to reference these decisions in its Report to the Plenipotentiary Conference 2006 on its follow-up to the decisions of PP-02 and to note in that Report that Council will re-examine its Rules of Procedure at a future session of Council after having taken into account the results of PP-06, instructs the Secretary-General to issue and post the modified Rule 7 as a single revision to the Rules of Procedure of the Council and to notify Member States of the change in the circular letters associated with the convening of Council 2006. Ref.: Documents C05/84 and C05/74. D 540 Creation of a single Standing Committee on Administration and Management (C06) The Council in view of Article 4 of the Convention of the International Telecommunication Union setting out the responsibilities of Council and, in particular, No. 61B specifying its mandate to adopt its own rules of procedure; considering the need to address the important human and financial resource issues of the Union in the most effective and coherent manner possible;